Dr Sara McCartney

Biography & Education

About Dr Sara McCartney

Dr Sara McCartney is a consultant gastroenterologist. She is currently Divisional Clinical Director in GI Services at University College London Hospitals and North Central London Endoscopy lead. She has a subspecialty interest in managing complex ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. She is an accreditated bowel cancer screening colonoscopist in the National screening programme and is an examiner in colonoscopic accreditation. She was an MRC clinical training fellow and completed a PhD on inflammatory mechanisms in IBD at the University of London. Dr McCartney established and was previously chairman of the Adolescent and Young Person's section at the British Society of Gastroenterology and a member of the BSG IBD committee. She has established and runs a large adolescent and young adult multidisciplinary IBD clinic at UCLH promoting optimal care for young patients and a joint IBD and pregnancy clinic with the obstetric team.She was a key member of the team producing guidelines for transition in GI disease, and a chief investigator in the TRANSIT study. She lectures widely on the management of adult and adolescent IBD and IBD in pregnancy.

Professional Memberships

Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Member of the British Society of Gastroenterology, Full registration with the General Medical Council.

GMC Number

3296486

NHS Base

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust